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Premium White Bread Mix

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Wright's Premium White is our most popular bread mix. It is made from a quality blend of wheats, milled in the traditional way. Use it to make delicious home baked bread, rolls or pizza bases straight from your oven or bread making machine.

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Carrot & Orange Cake

Deb's Tips

A lovely cake to enjoy with an orange juice all summer long! Try two teaspoons of Cointreau with 3 teaspoons of orange juice and add 150g of icing sugar to drizzle over for a special treat.

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Carrot Cake Mix
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CAKE

  • Wright's Carrot Cake Mix 500g

  • White bread flour 20g
  • Orange Mandarin Segments 150g
  • Vegetable Oil 60ml
  • Water/juice from mandarins 180ml
  • Orange flavour or extract 1 teaspoon
  • WATER ICING

  • Icing Sugar 150g
  • Orange juice 5 - 6 teaspoons
  • OPTIONAL
  • Orange peel

 

METHOD - (Makes 1). 

 

MAKING BY HAND:

Using the ingredients listed above for the "Cake", mix all of the ingredients together to form a batter by hand and deposit into a well greased or lined baking tray/sheet approx. 25 x 17.5 cm(10 x 7 inches).

  2. Bake in the oven at 160-165ºC (320-330ºF) Gas Mark 4-41/2 for around 45 - 55 minutes until baked. Allow to cool.
  4. Using the ingredients listed for the water icing, blend together in a bowl the icing sugar and orange juice using a spoon.
  6. Cover the top fo the cake with the water icing and finish with some sprinkled grated orange peel, if desired.

 

USING A BREADMAKER:

Using the ingredients listed above for "cake", place all wet ingredients first followed by the Carrot Cake mix, in your bread making machine pan and start the cake programme.

  1. If you do not have a cake programme, leaving the paddle in the pan, go to the basic cycle to mix but stop the machine after 15 - 20 minutes. Turn off the machine via the plug or press reset then switch the machine to the bake cycle and bake for a minimum of 1 hour and 10 minutes - maximum of 1 hour and 30 minutes.
  3. After baking, leave the cake in the machine for a further 10 minutes before tipping out. 
  5. When cooled, decorate as above or as desired.